Ash have been talking to NME about their employment of a clairvoyant to exorcise the ghosts of 29 people from a building where they were filming their forthcoming mini-film come rockumentary 'Ash: Love and Destruction'.
Apparently the central London building (formerly used by the Sierra Leone consulate but now derelict) was so haunted cameras wouldn't work, things were going missing and there was an un-natural feeling of tension in the place. So the band hired Sharon Neill, a blind Northern Irish clairvoyant who has previously been used by the police to help with missing persons and murder enquiries, and a friend of Ash bassist Mark Hamilton.
"She walked into this building and nearly froze," Hamilton told NME. "She said the place was teeming, crawling with spirits. As we walked up the steps she'd stop every now and then and shudder. They were spirits who effectively still thought they were alive, trying to reach someone who could see them." Neill said she could detect 29 spirits in the building, many of whom she believed were soldiers. At least three, she said, had been murdered. You can read the full interview at www.nme.com.
Word is Ash are planning to bring Sharon, who recently guested on Xfm’s breakfast show, along to the NME Awards on 13 Feb.